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“I stand between these two attractive people as something of an oddity, like the guy taking the light readings at a photo shoot, miraculously connected to both of them, conspicuously average; the man in the middle.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“You’re thinking about one woman while trying to reach another, and despite this apparent abundance of women, you feel lonely and desolate as hell, and, almost unconsciously, you drive to the house of a third, and the third woman is your mother.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“Consequences are a concept for the sober.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“maybe what you consider fearlessness is actually just an expert level of loneliness.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“I’m tired of having a plan. I’ve been planning my whole life, and it isn’t working. I just want to sit back and breathe for a minute, figure out who the hell I am.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“I was as sure as I could humanly be, and still, I failed. So what do you think your chances are if you’ve already got serious doubts?”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“«Себастьян Найт был до того влюблен в карикатурную сторону вещей и до того невосприимчив к их серьезной сути, что сумел, даже не будучи по природе циничным или бездушным, устроить балаган из сокровенных чувств, по справедливости священных для рода человеческого».”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Просвечивающие предметы (Вечные книги)

“In sickness and in sickness. That is what I wish for you. Don't seek or expect miracles. There are no miracles. Not anymore. And there are no cures for the hurt that hurts most. There is only the medicine of believing each other's pain, and being present for it.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am

“It occurs to me, just before I pass out, that maybe I was miserable before, but things were going too well for me to notice it.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“If I could tell her the truth, I would say I’m looking for flaws. Because that’s what you do when you’re in love with someone you don’t want to be in love with. You look for imperfections in their skin, oddities in their features. You picture how they will age, where time will tarnish them. You try to catch them at harsh angles, discern some measure of awkwardness where their limbs connect to their trunks. You search for these deficiencies with an air of desperation, ready to lay claim to whatever you find, to inflate it grotesquely in your mind, and in doing so set yourself free. I would say that I’m paralyzed, that I see things I can’t reach for, have itches I can’t scratch. And then there are the parts of me that I can’t feel anymore at all. That my days are filled with a quiet dread that has as much to do with her, or at least the potential of her,”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“When I first met you …” “When I first met you I thought about asking you out.” “So why didn’t you?” “It’s complicated.” “People always say that, but it never really is.” “That’s probably true.”
― Jonathan Tropper, How To Talk To A Widower

“I used to fuck stuff up like that all the time. I didn’t see the big deal.”
― Jonathan Tropper, How To Talk To A Widower

“There are some things you can never say out loud, even to yourself, sins of the mind that you can only file away in the hopes of absolution at some later date.”
― Jonathan Tropper, How to Talk to a Widower

“Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“She was good at forgetting; she had practiced for years, and it was now a skill at which she excelled.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Sisters